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Laundry: A typical washing machine uses 65 litres of water to wash clothes
– and often we are not ‘clothes efficient’ because most families have a washing machine
at home and therefore it is easy to wash our clothes. This is one reason that we now
use twice as much water at home as 25 years ago. Challenge yourself to wear
things more than once (apart from your underwear!) and only put your clothes out
for washing when they are really dirty/smelly. Can you persuade everyone in your
family to take up the challenge? How many loads of washing can you save every week/month?
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Collect 10 litres for every load of washing your family saves per week/month
Water Supply Challenge Game: Using the poster, learn all about the
challenges of planning and building your own water pipe network by playing the Water
Supply Challenge Game. Working as a team, decide on your route and then tackle the
problems of leaking pipes, environmental concerns and customer issues. All in a day’s
work for a water company! The better your responses the more water litres you
can win for your team. (See the instructions pages 17 - 18 and the poster.)
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Collect 5 litres for building your network
Collect up to 9 bonus litres for answering the challenge questions
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Gadgets: There are a number of different
devices that you can install in your home to help you become more water efficient.
These include shower heads designed to reduce the amount of water you use when
showering; tap inserts that mix air with the water to give the same washing effect with
less water; and hose triggers that automatically shut off the water when the hose
is not in use. Follow this link www.savewatersavemoney.co.uk/girlguiding and
check out what free devices are available from your local water company, order
and install them in your home. Encourage your friends and family to install devices as well.
5
Collect 5 litres for every water saving device you, or your family and friends, install at
home
PA
Use a bowl
when you wash
food/vegetables.
That way you will use
less water, and you can
use the water in the
bowl to water the
plants in the
garden.
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challenge acti
Wat
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er ef ficiency
Use a bowl
when you do the
washing up.
As well as saving water,
you will also save the
energy used to heat
the hot water for the
washing up.
WATER BOTTLE JACKET
You will need:
• 1 litre drinks bottle
• An old sock – any colour (check that it fits
snuggly over your chosen water bottle,
and it is not too loose or too tight)
• Needle and cotton or fabric glue
• Decorative craft items such as sequins,
ribbons, felt, wool etc
Instructions
1. Cut off the foot end of the sock
just above the heel, so you have a
stretchy tube.
2. Turn the sock tube inside out and
sew or glue the cut end into a hem
to stop the sock unravelling.
3. Turn the sock tube the right way
out, and then decorate (it is better
to sew the decorations onto the
sock tube so that they stay on when
the jacket is stretched over your
water bottle).
4. Once your jacket is finished, pull
it onto your bottle for instant style.
PA
Send us a photo of your finished
jackets so we can put them on the
website.
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WILL NEED
INSTRUCTIONS
• The mains and drains board (all games)
• ‘H2O 4 Life’ cards - you will need to cut
these up (games 2 & 3 only)
• Counters (all games)
• 1 Dice (all games)
Game 1 - Mains and drains board game
Game 2 - ‘H2O 4 Life’ cards
1. This game is played like snakes & ladders
1. The ‘H2O 4 Life’ cards are like Chance and Community
chest cards in Monopoly
3. Lay out the game poster
2. Suitable for up to 6 players at a time
4. Agree the rules, eg:
a. Youngest person goes first or first to roll a 6
3. Lay out the game poster
5. Take turns to roll the dice and move around the board
If your go finishes on a water mains tap, follow the hose
pipe to the top and wait there until your next turn
1. This version combines games 1 & 2
2. Suitable for up to 6 players at a time
3. Lay out the game poster
2. Suitable for up to 6 players at a time
b. If you roll a 6, have another go, but if you roll three 6’s on
the trot, go back to the start
Game 3 - Mains and drains and ‘H2O 4 Life’ cards
4. Agree the rules, eg:
a. Youngest person goes first or first to roll a 6
b. If you roll a 6, have another go, but if you roll three 6’s on
the trot, go back to the start
5. Take turns to roll the dice and move around the board
If your go finishes on a plug hole, follow the drain pipe to
the bottom and wait there until your next turn
If your go finishes on a ‘H2O 4 Life’ square take an ‘H2O 4
Life’ card from the top of the pile and follow the
instructions. Then put the card at the bottom of the pile
6. The winner is the first person to reach the last square on
the board
6. The winner is the first person to reach the last square on
the board
4. Agree the rules, eg:
a. Youngest person goes first or first to roll a 6
b. If you roll a 6, have another go, but if you roll three 6’s on
the trot, go back to the start
5. Take turns to roll the dice and move around the board
If your go finishes on a water mains tap, follow the hose
pipe to the top and wait there until your next turn
If your go finishes on a plug hole, follow the drain pipe to
the bottom and wait there until your next turn
If your go finishes on a ‘H2O 4 Life’ square take an ‘H2O 4
Life’ card from the top of the pile and follow the
instructions. Then put the card at the bottom of the pile
6.The winner is the first person to reach the last square on
the board